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Table of Contents
Nonfiction
Victoria Bond
• The Making of the Opera “Mrs. President”
James C. L. Brown
• Re-imag(in)ing the Ideal
Elizabeth Hanly
• Delia
Eleanor Ross Taylor
• Robert Lowell and Jean Stafford
Paul West
• Introducers
Poetry
Jeannette Allée
• Feastdays
• The Harpist Played Sidesaddle
• These Bathrobes, Dear Bathrobes
Jim Andrews
• Dystopia
Nin Andrews
• My Tail
• Dangerous Kissing Tip or What Gmail Knows about You
Robert Boliek
• The Audubon Elegies
Jenny Gillespie
• Cetacean, 26
Sandra M. Castillo
• I Dream of Crispen Glover
Lisa Chun
• The Beauty of Painful Transition
Deborah Elliott Deutschman
• Agnes Martin (2002)
Oliver Dunne
• Barbara Rubin, 1946—1981
Blair Ewing
• Trying To Clean My Rifle On Dewey Beach
Raina Fields
• Cinematic Yearnings
Frederick Foote
• Dark Center
• Division
Alex Grant
• Philosophy Mid-Term
Jennifer Gresham
• Let Me Draw You a Map
Brian Patrick Heston
• Hector at the OK Coral
Mary Crockett Hill
• My Sister the Buddhist Prays with the Fleas
Amy Holman
• Bearing Misfortune With the Abstract Man
Esther Iverem
• Homecoming
Dan Johnson
• Music Theory
George Kalamaras
• The Best Unknown Guitarist in the World
Jesse Lee Kercheval
• On July 5, the 4th Year of the War
Jenna Le
• Love Story
Priscilla Lee
• Sex
• The Crossing
David Lieberman
• Carving Out a Garden in the Woods
Chip Livingston
• Defuniak Springs
Reb Livingston
• Diminished Prophecy 1
• 3
• Litany for the Wrong Bygone
Dora Malech
• Goodbye, I Love You
• Open Letter
Laura McCullough
• Reading for Harvey Keitel
Franetta McMillian
• The Klansman’s Daughter
Sally Molini
• Delivery
Yvette Neisser Moreno
• Languages I Have Learned
Mary Morris
• New Mexico
James Norcliffe
• ATM
David Parker
• I Think Only of Unreasonable Explanations
Nicole Pekarske
• Chrissed Off
Jim Peterson
• Dollars
Holly Prado
• Sweater
• Instantly
• Sandalwood
Roberta Allen
• Normal
• The Decision
Mary Bailey
• The Body on the Floor
Lauren Baratz-Logsted
• Disaster
Mary Ann Cain
• Distractions
Bonnie Jo Campbell
• The Cook
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
• Normance (excerpt)
Kelly Cherry
• Prolegomenon
Jason DeYoung
• Mariska’s Tongue
Robin Ferrier
• Metro Tag
Tara Goedjen
• Dog Baby
Myronn Hardy
• Civilization
Susi Klare
• At the Intersection of Heaven and Hell
Laurence Klavan
• The Unexpected Guest
Nick Kocz
• Young Nihilist Seeks Other
Jonathan K. Rice
• Ice Cream
Katy Richey
• Vagina Cognizance
Kim Roberts
• A Private Tour
Carly Sachs
• The Game
Peter Jay Shippy
• Keir Dullea Gone Tomorrow
Katherine R. Smith
• Hard-Hearted Woman
Mark Smith-Soto
• Drifting Away
Laurel Snyder
• Dog
• Bye
Amy Bracken Sparks
• Dark Matter Draws Me Home
Richard Spilman
• Sex and Memory
Laura-Gray Street
• Meet Me at the Speed of Light
• Crowd Looking at a Tied-Up Object
• Recreation Center
Dan Stryk
• Ornament
Elizabeth Swados
• No Photographs Please
• The Visit
Mark Terrill
• A Poem for the Here & Now
Rosemary Winslow
• Recess
Kathi Wolfe
• Dancing with Martha Graham
Fiction
Graphics
Zane Kotker
• A Dog With Yesterday’s Name
Doug Lawson
• The Dogs of Carova
Jonathan Lyons
• Dashiell
Anne Marsella
• Sons Of
Mark Maxwell
• 43
Jean McGarry
• The Tree of Life
Daniel Mueller
• Spoils
Lance Olsen
• Calendar of Regrets — An Excerpt
Mary Overton
• Teeth
Cheryl Pallant
• Until Death Do They Part
Pedro Ponce
• Intelligent Design
Shelagh Power-Chopra
• While on Vacation in Rome
Doug Rice
• Anatomy of Pronouns in Advance of an Autobiography by Doug Rice
Ben Stein
• Instruction
David A. Taylor
• Special Economic Zone — Shantou
Karen Trimbath
• Mysterious Players, Those Failed Prayers
Lee Upton
• Performance Review
Christina Yu
• The Girls of Sigma Psi
Mike Woolsen
• photography